Review: Rock and Roll Highway: The Robbie Robertson Story
By: Christine Smith McFarlane
“Rock and Roll
Highway: The Robbie Robertson story” with its bright and colourful pictures
is a non-fiction book geared to young pre-teens. It’s a story that is inspired
by Robertson’s path to fame as portrayed by his son Sebastian Robertson, who is
a musician himself.
Robertson, who was born in Toronto, Ontario, and an only
child of a Mohawk mother and Jewish father grew up spending summers, holidays
and many weekends at the Six Nation reserve where his mother had been born and
raised. It was here “that it all began;
it was here where the rhythm, melodies and storytelling of Robbie’s First
Nations captured his imagination,” and drew him into wanting to be a storyteller
one day too.
With family encouragement, Robertson picked up his guitar
and by the age of 12 surpassed the adults on his reserve as the ‘best
guitarist.’ He soon begins his own group Robbie and the Rhythm Chords and takes
off from there.
Sebastian Robertson chronicles his father’s musical journey
in a way that is light and fun to read. At the end of the book, there is a
chronological timeline of Robbie Robertson’s life and a q and a of Sebastian
interviewing his father about his career. This is a book that will inspire you
to go after your dreams.
“Rock and Roll Highway”
is doing very well on Amazon.ca-the book nabbed #1 spots in three children’s
books categories and an interview with Sebastian was published by the Rolling
Stones Magazine.
Sebastian has a forthcoming book ‘Legendary Chiefs,’ that will be published by Tundra Books next
year and he and his father are working together on another project, ‘Hiawatha and the Peacemaker for Abrams.’
Rock and Roll Highway: The Robbie Robertson Story is published by
Raincoast Books
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